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A 57-year-old Delray Beach man was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty in a child pornography case, the State Attorney's Office said. The case revealed that Stephan Forman Jr. was the man behind an IP address that was sharing and/or downloading child pornography files, prosecutors said. The computer was traced to Forman's home in the 5000 block of Northwest Third Court. In March police arrested Forman after entering his home with a search warrant.

A Boynton Beach man was charged Wednesday with using his computer to distribute child pornography. Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators say William Rodgers Moore, 22, sent a child pornography image to an America Online subscriber in June 2000. Moore told investigators he had been downloading child pornography for "a couple months," according to an arrest affidavit. He was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday night on $3,000 bond.

A South Carolina man surrendered to authorities Monday after Boynton Beach police said he sent child pornography to undercover detectives. Cliff Reynolds, 60, of Elgin, S.C., was arrested on 10 counts of transmitting child pornography and a count of solicitation of child pornography, said Stephanie Slater, spokeswoman for the Boynton Beach Police Department. She said Reynolds met undercover detectives in an Internet chat room and sent dozens of photos and videos, 10 of which showed child pornography.

A Boynton Beach man pleaded guilty Friday to all three counts of a federal indictment charging him with distribution and possession of child pornography, authorities said. Investigators said they found more than 100,000 images and videos showing the sexual abuse of young children in Mark Joseph Harvey's home. Law enforcement officers think it was the largest collection of child pornography recovered in South Florida. Harvey, 46, was arrested Feb. 4 on a criminal complaint charging that in November and December 2008, he engaged in the distribution of child pornography with an undercover FBI agent, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Posted by Barbara Hijek on September 29, 2009 06:45 AM, September 29, 2009

Ohhh, creepy. We're talking about a guy into child porn. But not just any sicko. Turns out Robert Sewell Barth was once teacher of the year at Cheney Elementary in Orange County. He and his wife served as foster parents to nearly 20 children since they were licensed with the state in 2002. But investigators found more than 1,100 images and 25 video files of child pornography on Barth's computer. Children depicted in the pornography were as young as about 2 years old, investigators said, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

A Wellington man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Friday on charges of child pornography and trying to lure boys into sexual encounters, authorities said. Timothy Beckett, 22, was convicted of possessing child pornography, 14 counts of producing child pornography and four counts of trying to entice a minor into sexual activity, said Nicole Navas, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Navas said Beckett pretended to be a teenage girl named Chelsea on MySpace.

A West Palm Beach man wanted on child pornography charges turned himself in Friday after police publicized their search. Joseph Sabellico, 54, came to the attention of authorities in November 2007, when police in Pennsylvania arrested a registered sex offender on new charges of transmitting and uploading Internet child pornography, an arrest report said. As authorities reviewed his computer exchanges, they came across interaction with a suspect who went by the screen name Joetony and sent 17 child pornography images to the Pennsylvania man. The screen name Joetony later was traced to Sabellico in West Palm Beach.

A West Palm Beach man faces federal charges after he was caught sending child pornography into Canada on the Internet, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Michael L. Pickering, 19, was charged with distributing child pornography and made his initial appearance in federal court Wednesday, where a judge ordered him held without bond until an April 29 arraignment, according to the report. An agent for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police downloaded 350 images posted by Pickering.

A Royal Palm Beach man was arrested Thursday after police said they found child-pornography images on his computer. Eugene Catrini, 25, was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Friday on his own recognizance. Royal Palm Beach police first arrested Catrini in June on charges of trafficking in ecstasy and seized his computer under a warrant at the time of his arrest, said Sgt. John Hill. Catrini now faces two counts of child pornography.